be plenty of people gathered together in protest at that killing of george floyd. there do seem to be hundreds of people or have been hundreds of people or have been hundreds of people over the afternoon. as you can see, no attempt been an distance. this looks like a demonstration unlike any other. i was speaking earlier to danny shaw who said that the main anxiety would be about making sure that these protests remain peaceful and that in fact, although we do remain on lockdown, actually social distancing was probably going to be ofa distancing was probably going to be of a secondary priority to the

police. cities across the united states woke up to the aftermath of more street demonstrations and growing civil unrest. curfews have been imposed in at least 13 cities. and several states have called out the national guard. it's in response to the death on monday of george floyd —an african american man from minneapolis, who died after a police officer knelt on his neck during an arrest. in all, over 75 cities have seen unrest. the protests started largely peacefully but violence has flared. shops looted, cars burned and buildings attacked. president trump has blamed far—left groups and anarchists for the violence. our north america correspondent david willis reports. this was the night america rose up in protest. angry, destructive protest aimed at the police and their treatment of racial minorities. curfews were imposed in more than a dozen american cities, but they were ignored.

and as night fell, a rising tide of anger gave way to displays of arson, looting and anarchy. all chant. many of those protests had started peacefully. "we can't breathe", the mantra of a movement that has taken george floyd's final words and turned them into a rallying cry. mr floyd was captured on video gasping for breath and pleading for his life. the police officer seen with his knee on mr floyd's neck is now facing murder and manslaughter charges but that's done little to abate the anger, and calls are growing for the three other officers involved in his arrest to also be brought to justice.

cocktail of factors are at play here. the pandemic has thrown a0 million americans out of work and trashed a once buoyant economy. people have been cooped up indoors for months as a result, some knowing it may be months if not years before they get theirjobs back. after taking off from florida in the united states thursday, spacex, the company founded by elon musk has completed not one but two historic milestones — being the first private company to launch a manned space craft into outer space and have it dock with the interntional space station. this is the moment the dragon capsule was making its final approach before docking to the iss. these are images taken from the international space station as the spacex craft was making its approach. the capsule was carrying

nasa astronauts doug hurley and bob behnken in what was the first manned space mission to take orbit from the united states in nearly a decade. india has announced plans to further ease a strict national lockdown. it comes despite a record daily rise of nearly 8,000 new coronavirus cases on saturday. from 8thjune, restaurants, hotels, shopping centres and places of worship will be allowed to reopen in many areas in the first stage of a three—phase plan. divya arya, our corresondent in delhi, has the details. it's a clear message to the people that this might still be called a lockdown, it's a month—long extension, but the purpose of the extension is to unlock. this will strictly be enforced only in areas with a high number of coronavirus cases. other areas, most of the country, will see this phased opening. 0nly schools and colleges are not

being open for another month. we have not heard anything about international air travel as well. other things — shops, shopping malls, even places of religious worship — are opening up. today is an update on saturday, the numbers are still the highest single—day surge, 8,300 today. we have seen that for the past two weeks. numbers are consistently rising as india started easing restrictions. over the past two weeks, train travel has been allowed, so has domestic air flight. millions of people, stranded without pay in big cities, have been moved as they wanted to go back to their hometown, they had no way to sustain themselves. the numbers are small but now, as restrictions are being eased there is a possibility, and as we have seen over the last two weeks, that the numbers may search. these are small numbers in comparison to the population

but the government has also been accused of very low levels of testing. india's testing, just over 100,000 people every day, one of the lowest levels of testing compared to globally. you're watching bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. hello there. may has ended on a dry, sunny, very warm note across the board and indeed the first few days ofjune are warm and sunny for many of us but we will start to see some changes taking place in our weather around the middle part of this new week.

so from monday morning dry, sunny and warm one for many but low cloud and warm one for many but low cloud and fog will clear away from the north—east. into the afternoon, there were the cloud will bubble up in response to the high temperatures and across scotland and northern ireland another one want to come particularly across central and western scotland, western parts of northern ireland, and the high temperatures could spark off an isolated heavy shower but most places dry. england and wales, widespread sunshine, an onshore breeze will peg the temperatures back, the highest temperatures central and western areas in the mid 20s and uv levels will be high across the board. 0n into tuesday, we see a change taking place across the north of the country. this cold front pushes southwards introducing more cloud, outbreaks of rain, some which will be heavier. cold northerly winds pushing on behind it. elsewhere across the country another fine, it. elsewhere across the country anotherfine, dry, it. elsewhere across the country another fine, dry, sunny it. elsewhere across the country anotherfine, dry, sunny and warm day. but much cooler across the

northern half of scotland. from mid week, we see a change. that weather front begins to move southwards bringing patchy rain for some of us and we will see a drop in temperatures. there is that weather front meandering its way southwards. it will weaken as it reaches the southern part of the country to rain full totals will be variable. as we reach the middle and latter part of the week we notice the feel of things, colder air the week we notice the feel of things, colderairspreading southwards across the uk. patchy rain at times on wednesday and thursday, not that much getting into areas we need it, and temperatures will fall away by the end of the week.

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the government has defended the easing of lockdown measures in england from tomorrow, despite the country's covid—i9 alert system indicating high levels of transmission. we are reasonably confident that the steps that we had taken and will be taking on monday are manageable, but we have to all continue to play our pa rt we have to all continue to play our part in that. after 10 weeks at home, more than 2 million people in england and wales who've been shielding during lockdown are told they can go outdoors. hundreds of people march to the us embassy in central london in protest over the killing of george floyd, the black man who died in police custody in america. and in the us, protests spread from minneapolis to at least 30 different cities, despite a number of curfews in place — riot police have used tear gas and rubber bullets. nasa astronauts doug hurley and bob behnken reach the international space station — onboard the spacex crew dragon capsule.